Helen McClory is a writer, editor, book reviewer and ESL teacher, born and educated in Scotland. Her debut collection, On the Edges of Vision, was just released by Queen's Ferry Press, and her novel, Flesh of the Peach, will be released by Civil Coping Mechanisms in 2016.

It is the fiery pinnacle of autumn in New York's Hudson Valley when Lola, a troubled recluse, reports her newborn kidnapped from outside a seedy bar. But no one's seen Lola with a baby, or even heard of him before now. Everyone assumes the boy is one of her delusions. Only Marko a chivalrous, drug- dealing ex-con of Romani descent is devoted to Lola.

Illustrator/author Neil Swaab presents his allegorical primer on surviving the first week of middle school, known in the book as the "Worst Place in the Entire World." Middle-schoolers and kids of all ages are exuberantly invited to attend.

NYC-based activist and social worker Ryan Berg presents No House to Call My Home: Love, Family, and Other Transgressions, a look into the lives of LGBT teens entrenched in what Berg describes as a "deeply flawed" foster care system. During his time here in New York, Berg worked with young people who have battled extreme poverty, racism, homophobia, transphobia, and years of abandonment and abuse.

In celebration of the release of Clarice Lispector's The Complete Stories, the collection's editor and Lispector biographer Benjamin Moser discusses the author's work with novelist Porochista Khakpour (The Last Illusion), presented by Vol. 1 Brooklyn.

From the critically acclaimed author of Sons and Other Flammable Objects comes a bold fabulist novel about a feral boy coming of age in New York, based on a legend from the medieval Persian epic the Shahnameh, the Book of Kings.

Manifest Destiny drives American expansion westward, building an early 19th-century society with genocidal brutality. This is the context that frames "The Revelator's" protagonist: a young orphan named Joseph. Reared on nights spent carousing with drunks and con men, the young protagonist dreams of something more.

Morning rush hour on the Golden Gate Bridge. Amidst the river of metal and glass a shocking event occurs, leaving those who witnessed it desperately looking for answers, most notably one man and his son Jake, who captured the event and uploaded it to the internet for all the world to experience.

In 1999, the Brooklyn neighborhood of Williamsburg is hit by an epidemic of suicide. The burgeoning hipster enclave rapidly becomes a macabre spectacle, witnessed and deftly described by Benson, a reflexively cynical Gen-Xer and New York transplant.

In Asking for It:The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture -- And What We Can Do about It, Kate Harding combines in-depth research with an in-your-face voice to make the case that 21st-century America supports rapists more effectively than victims.

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Published: Simon & Schuster - September 2015

New York Times Bestseller

The only self-help book you’ll ever need, from a psychiatrist and his comedy writer daughter, who will help you put aside your unrealistic wishes, stop trying to change things you can’t change, and do the best with what you can control—the first steps to managing all of life’s impossible problems.